A laughing gull hops on another laughing gull in distress - pics

[Kadie]

A laughing gull hops on another laughing gull in distress at the Breton National Wildlife Refuge on North Breton Island, La. , Thursday, May 20, 2010. The distressed tern, which could not fly, was collected by the U.S. Fish and WIldlife Service for possible rehabilitation, and analysis to determine if it was due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.


A laughing gull hops on an another laughing gull in distress at the Breton National Wildlife Refuge on North Breton Island, La. , Thursday, May 20, 2010. The distressed bird, which could not fly, was collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for possible rehabilitation, and analysis to determine if it was due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.


U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer Raul Sanchez shields a laughing gull in distress from the sun at the Breton National Wildlife Sanctuary on North Breton Island, La. , Thursday, May 20, 2010. Although the bird showed no signs of oil, it was collected for possible rehabilitation, as well as analysis to determine if its illnes was the result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.


U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer Raul Sanchez, right, and Jason Storlie of the USDA Wildlife Services, rescue a laughing gull in distress for possible rehabilitation, as well as analysis to determine if its illness was due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, at the Breton National Wildlife Refuge on North Breton Island, La. , Thursday, May 20, 2010.



A laughing gull in distress tries to climb on an oil boom at the Breton National Wildlife Refuge on North Breton Island, La. , Thursday, May 20, 2010. The distressed bird, which could not fly, was collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for possible rehabilitation, and analysis to determine if it was due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

[flamingdem]

1. Thank you nt

[onehandle]

2. Poor little thing. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

3. ....

:cry:

If it isn't the oil, it's the dispersants...

[elleng]

5. With you.

:pals:

[coti]

10. I'm sure it's the oil.

The gull didn't look oily, but what had it eaten?

[Cetacea]

12. Fumes perhaps. It could be neurological. Dispersants?

[Lorien]

17. The dispersant was every bit as toxic as the oil

BP only used it to cover up the evidence.

[BrklynLiberal]

21. Absolutely right.

Using dispersants make it more difficult to measure the extent of the spill..AND also make it more difficult to capture the oil...so..let's see, what could the REAL purpose be???

[Canuckistanian]

11. Yup.

I don't see a trace of oil on that bird.

[Lorien]

16. I still can't believe that the EPA ever allowed those dispersants to be pumped

into our ocean. One toxin on top of another. :cry:

[BrklynLiberal]

20. Chemicals that were banned on other continents!!!!

[jillan]

4. I don't think I'm going to be able to click on these threads much longer.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Mira]

6. I am with you. BUT WE HAVE TO.

There is no way we can allow this to sink away in our consciousness. We already did this to too many calamities and sins and atrocities.
We have become disaster fatigued, overloaded.
I'm just rambling, because I am very affected by the thought of what is happening out there in the ocean, I understand you fully.

[jillan]

8. I just HOPE the media shows these pictures. Or better yet - these pictures

should be on signs held up when the drill baby drill crowd is out in public.

[Bryn]

7. I hope that distressed gull gets well ...

What a beauty a laughing gull is! K&R

[catzies]

9. OH MY GOD LAUGHING GULLS ARE MY FAVORITE BIRDS THIS IS SO AWFUL

They have a very distinctive call that instinctively makes you smile when you hear it IMO.

I grew up hearing them in Key Largo :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Solly Mack]

13. :(

[liberalla]

14. Heartbreaking...

I wonder if the one laughing gull knew the other, and was sticking by his mate and/or pal?

To me, victims of the dispersants = victims of the oil. The dispersants wouldn't be there but for the oil. When numbers are tallied, animals killed by dispersants should be added to number of animals killed by oil.

[Kadie]

15. My first thought was bird CPR

Looks like he is yelling for someone to come help his buddy.

[liberalla]

18. Or trying to protect him/her from the approaching humans

Poor thing. Damn.

Humans can really phuck everything up. Especially corporate humans.

[gorfle]

19. Hey look, a Republican laughing gull!

When his friend is down and out, he hops on his back and gloats!